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Book Quotes by Edmond Jabes
- Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
- WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the…
- THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to…
- The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
- God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
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